The Yarn of a Bucko Mate His Adventures in Two Oceans
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During my travels, I have learned that civilization to most people is a sham and a fraud. It takes more out of a man, ten yes, a hundred times more than he ever gets back. I don't know a stronger illustration of my meaning than that furnished by your own life. You have been working like a slave since boyhood working among the most unpleasant surroundings possible for a man to conceive ; sailing on the stormiest ocean on the globe. At first, for years, you were starved and abused worse than any ...Roman galley-slave. Now, to be sure, you have risen a little above that condi- tion, but you have only changed places a bit; in- stead of being one of the abused, you are the chief abuse r. " You admit that you never expect to go any higher. Now, in Heaven's name, what is your reward for all these years of killing service ? You receive, as wages, 82 THE YARN OF A BUCKO MATE less than a journeyman mechanic. The food you are obliged to eat would not be tolerated on the table of the cheapest boarding-house.
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